The Sun. — London, England, 1810-12-29 00:00:00

on, ihg the L.: Ed e, !it sr.wv.. -- 4,L„: 'x'sl.-•_Ew S. by sternly .veather. for orders. West ward. 1 • PLTSIOIiTtI, .1)Be. 26.—A1 - rived - late - on Monday . night the Voc c ion. - packet,; Captain NAILOR, with . I jib ifu c (rorn cadiz, which have been landed and ' . •-:,.; - '., 4to London ; on her :arrival she came to tit t :', .. n Cawsand Lay, and in cons:-quetice of the k' ~,f ;Ind, tLi4tew the Whole of that night arid tlysjollowing 'day,. no intelligence of ,her ay - rival ,--11 -feached this plate un 11 this morning. She has had a stormy passage of 12 'days, and .brings inielligence, that the Frencli , arturbad not perfortriedr•hy thing -Of conseciUerice; other tai continually throwing `shells, sothe.of .which had done some ' damage, but i .. 'nothing glconfietpivnce. , • . . Tile-Ascion also brings intelhgence that General SEBASTIAN', with ,It • army ' of . 10,00 0 inen, at tacked the Spanish army under BLAKE, in the vi cinity of the prOvince of Grenad.,, arid atter a des , 'perate - battle;:.*.the latter was defeated, after sustain- . . ing great losS, .Atter this defeat, Gen. SEBASTI . AN', with .his army, marched to•jom 'the army bAore Cadiz, whi?h-they elf.ted,"preions. to the Wocton's departure. Grneral BLAti,E, alter the action, ,- tired t.; the coast, -and . was taken on board an Eng :ish frigate, tor ,ritti. purpo-e of being conveyed to being app,iuted President of the Cortes, he,.arrtred on_ the'ith inst. Tot- BTitish lineTot-b,:t;le ships at Cadiz, were ordered to England . , of a stnaller elass being deem. LI - sorhcierit fur the pro.e . c.ti,,n of that pl3ct--; but a report having reached cadiz, and which was '‘gereraffy believed, i'nat the French fleet had escaped frorn - Toulon, and that their destination *was than • - plze4Med a little alarm, and in eonseqUence the xnert of War, were ordered to remain Were. Sir .11. KUM GRARAM consulted on the oc casion, and the above Measure was deemed expe- The are increasing their•.flotilla is Cadiz harbour, as they bring their gun,-btiats over land from St. NI iry's,.ahout half a mile acro,s. The, 4n Caot BuTTON,:lhat sailed from hence some cla3ssince for the ..vlettterranean, put . into Cadiz two days previous to •:the depar- Vire. .Came down from BarnpOol, and anchot e o in the Sound, his Majesty's ',dill) Helena, of 18 g - k ns Daring the heavy gale, of wind that blew yesi,,r day from the W.S.W. tus 11 ijelyi 4 s hip lionmius, of 44 guns, drove from her anchorage,. and it the gale had continued with that violence through the night, she would ba . ve driven ashore ; but tte are happy to state, tiow rides sate. :I'ne transport Robert. and . Sarah, Blyth, Captain HuriTAft, paned lit -cable in the Sound, .atid run info Sutton Pool, but bas not sustained any material damage. • A .merchant vessel during the gale ran foul of, the Ann transport, Capt. HOWE, by which accident Loth ships received damage, and the latter had her bowsprit carried away. ,Arrived the transport, No. 175, from the West- ward. Went into harbour his Majesty's ship Merope. Arrived two men of war brigs from the West. ward ; also arrived an American from Cork, wick a 'cargo of oats,' bound - to Li,bou, put in here Arrived the. ship Country Squire, STORY, from Quebec, with a cargo of timber, bound to this port, Dec. 27.—The American brig that arrived here yesterday s is the Rover, Capt._ I-AAC PARKER, from Cork, with a cargo of oats, bound to Lisbon, driven in• here by stormy weather. A►rived his Majesty's si;ip Maros, of t 4 guns, from a cruize. The Aocton packet that arrived here on Monday from Cadtz,•passk-d, about a week since, a man* war brig with a merchant brig in tow ; the latter Lad lost her mainmast. Came down from Barnpool and anchored in the Sound, his Majesty's ship , President, of 38 guns, Capt. WARREN.. His Majesty's ship Aortit Slar, of 18 guns, captl COE, takes convoy to Portsmouth, and will sail on Saturday next provided the wind is fair. ,DpAL, DEC: 28.—Came down from the River the Cumbeilanii East Indianian, and sailed to the Sailed the Zephyr sloop of, whr, with he, whole off' the outward , bound under convoy. Arrived the Fisguard frigate from the Baltic, and his Majesty's shp Aboukir from Sheerness. PORTSMOUTH, DEC. QB.—Atrived this day the transport Tri!Pi/gar, HARRISON, from Lisbon with horses. This day sailed hienjesty's ships Diana, from Havre-de-Grace Ganges and Saturn, for Plymouth; rengeur, Donegal, and Revenge, fur a cruize off fierbourgh ; Dexterous and II olverene, for a min ; Malacca and Galatea, for the Cape of Good • tope ; Statdy, tor and .Scodzikk, for Guernsey with a convey. E. Came into harbour yesterday, the Menos, Sit> P . of and from London ; bound to Mont seirat, • laden with West . ..lndia rnerchanclize,. with loss of an anchor andcable,-and this.morning.the tide running out very .fast, forced her on the beaCh, and as the tide slacked she fell over, in Which.situa (ion she now remains full of water. Went out of harbour this day his Majesty's ship Hawk. CF ATHAM, DEC. 27. 7 -Last night three French prisoners a►tempted to escape from the Kass-an, One of which (a Captain of a privateer) was shot by one of the Marines on sentry, and the other two se- • cured: • DEC. 28.—His Majesty's ship Princess Caroline was undocked. The, Iluby has got her logier deck guns out pre vious to itergoing to:Lei , b with French prisoners. FALMOUTH, DEC. 26. 7 —S.:tiled yesterday his Ma jesty's ship illerope tor Plytriouth. The following is a correct Copy of the Protest of the Royal Dekes, wun Mr. PERCEVAL'S answer : " Sin, Th e Prince of Wales having assembled the villuie of •the male branches of the RoyA and naving commoincated to us the Jan intended to be,proposed by this Majesty's confidential Si'-.e vants, 10 the Lords— and COI.IIIIIOIB, km the eilablishment of a .res“icted Ike ney, should the continuance of his Majesty'S ever-io-be-deplcired illness render it necessary ; we feel it a duty we owe to ins,lVlaiesty, to.oUtcoutitry, and to ourselvtrs, to enter our solemn Protest against Measure, we con sider as perfectly unconstituti9tial, as they are con trary to, and soveisive Of the principles which seat ed our Family upon the Throne of this Realm. (Signed) FItEDERICK VVILLIAM EDN'AItII 'EaNv.sr AUGUSTUS .FREDERICK • ADOLPHUS FREDERICK WILLIAM FIiEIIEHICK. Weenesdiy, night, 72 o'clock, Dec. (9, R. 11. Spethver Perceval. (52c. Sze. (COPYI Mr, Perceval has the honour of acknowledging the receipt of a solemn Protest, in the name of all the male bratichts of the Royal FaMily, against. thC :oeasuri-s whicti LiS 'Majehky's confidential servants have 'bought it to be their duty to. communicate to . his Royal Highness the Pt ince of Wiles, as intend ed to be proposed to the two Houses of Parliam,nt, fOr the establishment of a restricted Regency during tnecontinuiince of his iNtijesty's eve, -to-be-lamen led ; and stating - their Royal High nesses consider • these as,pertedly uncon btilutturial, and contrary to, and subversive of the principles iwb.tch - seated his Majesty's-Royal Family upon tie o eof this Reaim; • • " Mr. 'Perceval naS tplt.it to be 'his duty to submit this communication, without loss of time, to his Majesry's . servants ; and deeply as they lament that the measure which they, thought themselves bound to propose , shad appear to their Royal Hight:sits to deserve 'a character so directly contrary to that which it has been their anxious endeavour should belong to 'it, they must still, howe%er, hare the, consolation of reflecting, that the principltstwou which they have acted obtained the express and concurrent support of Ike tvto Houses of Parliament in 1788 ; and 1789; that those .Houses of Parliament had the high batis laaion• of'-receiving, by the command . of his M - -jesty, atter his Majesty's recovery, his watme,si ac knowledgments for the additional- proofs they had given of then : affectionate attactimeht to his Person, and' of,their zealouS concern for the honour and in , Wrests of his Cm own and,the security.and good go. vet nnient of his 'dominions ,and that the 'uninter rupted confidence which his Majesty was pleased to repose, for a long series -of years, in,the -persons who proposed the measures which were grounded on those principles, entitles his.Majesty,'s servants, in their judgment, still further to - conclude, , that . those principles and measures had the sanction of his Royal approbation. . • " DOwningl;freet, Dec zo, IS to. " His Royal Highness the Duke of York, &c. &c. Stc." The following requisinpn was on Thursday eve- . niog presented to the 'tight Honourable the LORD MAYOR : • MY the undersigned request your Lordship to convene a Couit of Cohirtion Coun..il on the earliest - pos. sibleda., toi the purpose of considering the propriety of dressing the Lords and. Colurri , ms on the most constitutional ; means 'of amply and, efficiently 'supplying, in tile 'pasuit of his Royal Highness the Plince of Waits, the of inca pacity of his Majesty to . discharge the necessary ufties,uX the Regal 'oft ce. M. 'WOOD, Alderruan, J. PEARSALL, W. RAWL INA. P. FENTON, jun. . E. QUIN, W. I. HELVES, W. JONES, S. MILLER, R. , WAITHMANT, T. REEVE, J. WRIGHT, J. TuitNEK, Jos. HURCOMBE, W. HEYGATE. G. KING. . . Dec., 2.7, 1810. Oa Monday night, about tea o'clock, as the Duke of NORFOLK was descending die second flight of step from the HOtise of Peers, his Grace sliQped ?rid fell with much violence, but fortunately received no material injury, although he was utrable to Ilse with out assistance. A melancholy accident happened on - Saturday last off the Isle of Wight. Mr. THOMAS DWrEtt, of the Commissariat department (who was oil the evu of sailing to join the army i❑ Portugal) had entered a boat for the purpose of getting on board of his ship; when about a mile from the shore, a sudden, gale of wind arose and upset the boat, , by which most un fortunate occurrence Mr. Dw YUR was thowhed. S T.f'l2 D E r. EXTRACT OF 'A, LETTER Fr.OM STOCKHOLM; DATED THE. 28Tli NOVEMBER, 1810. "Jo transmitting to you the Swedish declara tion of. war against England, .1 wish to commu nicate to. you some details with regard to the Motives which have - induced .Buonaparte to or der it. Extremely irritated by the loss of the Isle of Bdurbon (seeing it thus every day become more difficult to make - good his promise to France, of .preserving her colonies), as.,, ell as by the resistance which he has met with in the Penicsula, Bunna parte sent for the Baron de Lagerbjellte;the Swe dish Minister at Paris,. and; lb prescnceof Cham-, pagny alone, spoke to him as follows :-- The elec tibri,of the Pr ince of - Ponte Corvo to the Throne of Sweden' has alone restrained my just resentment against your Court• for the last three months. . It (las not ceased to give provocation to France since 1809: at One time preventing. England from mak ing peace for Ore., years together; and at another, seeing the alliance and protedion of ;France, in order to desert it afterw?rds. I. knew (added Burma ; parte) how to provide against the hatred of Gusta vus Adolphus. he was my declated. enemy ; while the present Government of Sweden has only sought my friendship for the purpose of 'recovering Firriatid, an event , that.will never t tke.pla&. It has, besides, cootinraed( to trade w Great Britam,:in cAtravention of the Treaty of Peace with France, .oy permitting .colonial produce to be introduced into SWeden, for i the purpose :01 being afterwards re-ex ported to the Coot ! " 6 In' consequence of an this,' Continued Bllo7' irlpartel, " my Minister at Stockhdlm has orders to (1611)4rd:that war be declared against England—thai English manufactures 'be burnt—and.that colonial 'produce be . subjected to a duty of 5b.p...r cent.,; and in case of refusul, he must quit Stockholm • immediately. It is I who order it--such' is my plou sure.' • " Whenever the Baron de Lagerbjelke attempted to reply, Buonaparte ordered him to be silent, cry ing, Hold your tongue !' " The Council of State . at .Stockholm, and which will surprise you still Mo - re; . Beinadotte himself,Were 'of opinion, that war should not be declared again,t England. ' The declaration -of. the Danish Minister, ' thathe would depart from SWeden; if .Buonapaite's demand, through. his own Minister, were not com plied with, and the fear that the King would expe rience , the late of the uotortunate Gustavus Adol phus, should he have a war .with France, Itlrssia, and Denmark, produced submission to the pleasure of Buonaparje. " The soundest and most numerous part of the nation highly disapprove of such a syste:n. " They cannot proceed to burp, the English ma nufact tares, and to impose a .duty of 501. per cent. on colonial prnduct, without first convoking the States / of the Realm. - The Baron de Lagerbjelke havirmanentioned that objeaion to Buonaparte, re ceived r for answer, " Let me hear no more of thee silly (the expres , ,iou is much more coarse in French) laws of Sweden.',, ". It is believed here, that Buonaparkt, during the. sp7ing, will put the Wedish fleet in requisition, for the . purpose of Making Iran tv hh , that which he is equippingin the Texel ; bat it is the general opt- Moo, at the same time, that this country wll not ad hostilely against England, if the latter does not attack ber;' EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM AN OFFICER WITH THE BRITISH ARMY IN PORTUGAL. Almeyria, Portugal, Nov. 30, aro. " On'the 15th instant, the whole 'of the French army retired froth their; position in font of our lines; and on the 16th Lord Wellington advanced with about half of his troops towards them ; we Marched after the enemy lor several days with ail pOSsible expedition, but we could, not, get up with thein till they had arrived at the heights of San tarem, in a position which Lord Wellington has deeined too strong to be attacked. General Hill's division has since crossed the Tagus, .and )is now immediately opposite the town of Sant gear, where nearly the whole of the French force is concen trated; but the Tagus is between Us, .and they have no means of ciossing it. Lord Wellington is on the other side of the enemy ; and there, area eon:- siderable numb er o f P ortu g uese troops, and our .13th light Dragoons, at Abrantes and_ the neigh bourhood; in their rear. Therefore, in case Massena atteMpts to retreat to Spain, ,as we imagine he Wtshes to do, he will sustain a very great loss ; and it is ceriein that he will never get to Lisbon with less. tlian 100,000 men. He brought about 80,000 men from Spaio, but cannot now have more than 60,000 effediVe. The battle at Buzaco cost him 10,000, and several thousand deserted,to us, 'mostly Germans. Our marches_ were very fatiguing, as' we generally started at four o'clock in the morning, arid we sel dom arrived at our quarters for the .night t ill`sik' or seven in the evening, and we had rain almoSt every day: when we came in, we had to take possession of deserte&houses, churches, or stabl6, .and pre pare for cooking our , breakfa'st. Our oxen. are driven With . us, and killed and made use of im mediately on our arrival at a place ot' halt, Dur ing our march on the other side, of the Tagus, I was constantly witnessing the horrors of war,--the raids being strewed with . the carcasses of hooks and; Mules, and even in some places with human bodies : and the towns and villages completely de serted : what furniture remained was thrown into the streets, and nothing but the shells of the 'watts were left. - We, are no in a country which the French have not visited, but which is filled by fugi tives from the other side of the river, who sutler the extreme of misery ; but the people do not murmur, and appear deteiiuinvd to defend their cotintry to the last." The President andConticii . ofthe Royal Academy, it seems, have determined to fill up the vacatcies which have been occasioned by the death of five of the Members; subjeet, of course, to the approba tion of his MAJusrv, %Viten, fur the happiness of an affectionate people, lie shall he restored to his former health. STAITWORD, DEC. es. Yesterday, MILToN, The horse-deller, who re , cently wagered 3001. aqainst 500 i. that he wotlic tide from the end of awer-street; Piccaflly, distance of-90 Miles) to this town, in five hours convicted his undertaking thr,l! varters of an houi within the time allowed ! ,He started from Direr. street at 2 minutes past S . O'clock yesterday Morning, and arrived HI the George and Angel Inn, in this place, at 1,7 minutes [VSI 12., When it 19 considered - that Mr. MILTON weighs 14 stone, and that in cote sequence of his horses being misp!need, he W 35 obliged to ride one horse-upward's' 0115 miles his wmay perhaps be proclaimed one of the Most derful featS ever performed in the annals of horse , nianship. One of the hors;.-s,was completely knocked up before he had gone 4 miles.. M. MILTON, whett he reached Siarriford, apprared'veiy little fatigued. Crib has:accepted the challenge from Molyneux. The match was tuade up at the n'ouse of Mr. Gui lty, Rupert-s!revt, for 250 guineis a al,ie, anti a subscription purse of WO guineas for the Toe battle is to be fought on the 21st of May. Fifty guineas of the stake aie the actual property of Mo lyneux, whose- friends come forward with the it . 4: mainder: On Thursday Count Gorroutv (Ex-King of Swe den), accompanted by Sir Shiver SMITH au i an - thrr Gentlemdtt, attended itt St. James's Pa;:tee to - ar.ke inquiries• after the state of 1-1 s MAJESTY'S health. It was . p;ist•the time direned by the Ulooin of the Stole receive inquiries, it being above a (patter vast four o'clOck. The list of names.to b 4. sent to the-QuEstq at Windscir •was sealed up, but was opened agai•=, to add the itatne of Count Goy TORP: Sir SIDNEY SMITH' and the other Genticmiiit explained to him, that he f.iustibe at the Pdace be fore tour o'clock in future. The Duke Of QUEENsBE,RIty's -will contains I,hc folloWipg bequests, in addition to those we tnive.al reaciy stated:— To Mr. Donglis; 1 . 50,0 , n1. To Colonel Ttioutas, 24.,,000 To Mr. lames. 10,0001. • • To Lady Gordon, to,oool. So Sir la!nes .'.lontgoinpie, 160001. ' There are thrce Executors —tltd - E.ul of Stair, Sir flmes Montgourarre, aid Mr. Douglas. • THE LYCEUM.--1 he comedy 'of The Ifonl Moon and the Magic - Bride drew a very min) roils audience to ,t;iis Theatre last night. The part of Duke Aram= was,for the first time., performed by Mr. NVRENCH j arill it iSI.IO mere ttianjustis:e to him ru say that he is the best representative that has ar pealed since it was 'performed by ELLISTJ2g. He support ed it with firmness, judgment, and feeling, and be evidently improves to it'," general uepottment. The rest of the Performers ‘,te have so mitten noti, ed, that no farther comment is neeess iry. Both pieces v. eot off with. eclat, and :were much applauded. - There is now 'living a urrier, who travels from a small town in the north of Lancashire, to a vilhge about six miles distant, where he arrives, every every ; Friday evening, at a certoin public-liou. e , at which place the neig-hboura meet 'him, 1;n• their inarketting; &c. The landlord of the inn h av i ng latejy died, on examini n g 114 books and scores, his executors',,to their i;reatasionislifntnt,foulid atnongst the latterfive thousand three hundred quarts of ale, regularly chalked to the accuirit of the twirler ; which he, with good humour, :acknowledges to be "just and right ;" and says, he hopes to live to (mk as many more !--The landl-rd, above alluded to, hid not kept a .public.house more than seven years. But'does not this • partotic carrier deserve well of his country ? ,He consumes a t o le ra bl e quan tity of old , Engosn beverage—to the confusion of 'Buonaparte, and the exclusion of fits brandy ! , SINGULAR BAAGAIN.—At Branford, last week, a bargain was struck between two persons, one agree ing to deliver to the other a millian of potatoes for the sum of fifteen pounds.—Thee two-men enjoyed their glass together, and parted' each in the toll ex peaation Gf having his engagement fulfilled ; but next day the vendor, on coining to make a strious Calculation of his agre ement , naturally enough de murred., .for it was apparent that, judging from an average weight, the million might be worth two thou Sand pounds ! The purchaser, we undersland, was for enforcing the bargain by law, bat with what propeel of success we know not. At the Fair of Ballingarry, county of Tipperary, ouTuesday, the t Ith of this moat!), a large party of armed men, above one hundred, marched throagh the Fair, firing shots, and searching for men of an opposite party, one of whom they found, and b l eat severely ; then marched off. Ina short time a se cond party, about the's ame number; of armed men marched in preceded by a man blowing a ho!ti. • They completely dispersed the people in the ,Fair, broke it up; and, after carousing a n d drinking the who're Right, attacked and plundered a number of cabins in the _neighbourhood. • Wednesday evening a party of journeymen, Alio had been colle4ing Christman-boxes, went to a pub lic-house in the neighboUrhood of Spital-fields, when a dispute arose cot - teeming their sharing -of the mo ney, and a general fight commenced; litiring,which one of them was so much hurt, as to be taken to the hospital. - On Tuesday afternoon, during the heavy stortri of rain, a man and woman, deceolly'dressel, , sta u d. ing for shelter at the door of a Gentlernah'i iii,use, in Bunhill-row, City-road, were invited th till the rain had subsided when, ,to requite the party for their,civility, they went away, taking with theta a great coat and a silk umbrella. _ . illotwitlistanding the inclemency of the weather, yesturday, two waterinen belonging to the Temple stairs", undertook tqr a trifling wager to swine across the Thames against time. After .the decision of Ott; aqueous, contention, the heroes retired. to a public house, where, by copious iioations of purl, they soon dispelled the ill etlects of their chilly excursion.' A fire broke out on Thursday night at the Ver. non ( - lead public-house,, corner of•reen-street and North Audley-street, occwoconed by the negve:t of a female lodger in the • second floor, who was so dreadfully burnt, that she died stwitly atter in the hospital.